While we all love a good bargain, cheap doesn’t always mean cheerful. Sometimes it leads to regret, and wishing you’d bought a couple of Freddo’s with your pennies instead. But there’s also always the chance you’ll stumble onto some real treasure. That’s why we decided to raid the bargain bin end of the Nintendo Switch
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a roaring carnival of witless bullshit. There are things in this movie which defy any sane classification: simply saying them out loud makes you seem as if you’re confessing to some crime or other. At about 15 separate points during the movie, your mind will whisper ‘can everyone else see
Nvidia has released a massive update on its Game Ready Driver, which will give plenty of the top PC titles a noticeable boost in performance and graphics over the next few weeks. The first is Diablo IV’s open beta, which releases on March 24 and will give the title access to DLSS 2 support. Upon
During GDC 2023, CI Games studio Hexworks revealed a technical showcase for its dark-fantasy action-RPG Lords of the Fallen as part of Epic’s State of Unreal keynote. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, the showcase revealed one of the reboot’s early locations, character customization, adaptable armor, and the Lumen Global Illumination lighting. Lords of the Fallen
Arkane is working to eliminate the always online requirement to play Redfall in single-player. Speaking with Eurogamer, game director Harvey Smith said the team is working to make offline single-player a possibility. Redfall Story Trailer – never trust rogue scientists backed by an evil corporation The studio is considering removing the requirement due to backlash
A new PUBG update for Season 22 arrived on February 15 2023, for PC and February 23 for next-gen consoles. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG and PUBG: Battlegrounds) spearheaded the popularity of battle royale games, becoming a breakout hit that inspired countless competitors like Fortnite or Apex Legends. This third-person shooter is available to play on
A new hotfix landing in Destiny 2 Lightfall on March 23 is going to address a major issue that’s been causing players grief since the start of the latest expansion’s launch: finally, Cabal Thresher damage output is going to be nerfed. Why is this important? First, a history lesson. With the launch of Lightfall, the
Counter Strike: Global Offensive fans are going all in on a new logo shared to Twitter in the hopes of uncovering a release date. What does ‘going all in’ entail, however? Trigonometry. Too much of it for my liking. Fancy a brief history of Counter Strike? Check out this video form Valve.First reported by the
Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, the folks behind Fallout: New Vegas, The Outer Worlds and the creators of Pillars of Eternity series. Set in the world of Eora from the Pillars of Eternity games, Avowed promises a fantasy epic, departing from the isometric style of Obsidian’s more recent titles in favor
Aliens: Dark Descent, the squad-based, single-player action game from Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment, has a release date. Coming to consoles and PC, in the game, you will lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Moon Lethe. Video courtesy of IGNIn the game, you will command a squad
Respawn Entertainment has announced the opening of its third studio, with the intentions of keeping battle-royale shooter, Apex Legends, running for another “10 to 15 years.” The developer, owned by EA, was initially founded by former Call of Duty developers in 2010, rising to fame with the release of Titanfall in 2014. Now, in 2023,
It’s great news for iOS device owners, and Apple Arcade subscribers, as 8BitDo has updated its excellent third-party controllers to support Apple’s phones, tablets and computers. 8BitDo has today announced that its range of controllers are now officially compatible with iOS, tvOS and macOS devices. That includes the iPhone 14, MacBook Air and Apple TV
“It’s at full speed everywhere” stated Danny Lange, senior vice president of AI and machine learning at Unity. He did so at the front of a packed room of games developers during a roundtable on “The Future of AI” at GDC earlier today. Sitting next to him was consultant Mark Deloura from Level Up Games,
The Adata Legend 960 is the latest PS5-ready SSD from the brand. It boasts some respectable figures overall but lacks the wow factor in a world that’s already seen everything possible from Gen 4, and often at lower prices, too. For this reason, the Adata Legend 960 cannot be considered one of the best SSDs
First reported by the folk over at PCGamer, it appears that Steam users may be able to take ‘game notes’ via the gaming platform in future. SteamDB Creator and dataminer Pavel Djundik shared the discovery to Twitter, saying that game notes “will be available in the Steam library, and on the web.”Happy birthday to the
There is a good reason why the launch of a PS5 Pro is speculated, despite no evidence to suggest one is currently in the works and the PS5 still being pretty new. Sony releasing the PS4 Pro in 2016 suggests they know how to build upon the prior console, and given the popularity and success
The iconic Let Me Solo Her is back, this time with a new challenge: one that makes every enemy in Elden Ring Malenia. Anyone that’s managed to get to Malenia has probably heard the line, “I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella,” way more times than they can count on several hands. She’s a damn tough
We might not be getting a new Hitman for a while, but IO Interactive does have a James Bond game on the way, and has shared a few more details. IO Interactive’s Bond game was first announced almost three years ago, and we haven’t really heard much about it since then. The studio also recently